Afro-Latinidad in the District and beyond
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Earlier this week, Afro-Latino culture was the focus two fascinating public events hosted by the local Afro-Latino Alliance and the D.C. Office on Latino Affairs, and held as part of Black History Month. HC recorded a few video-soundbites from Tuesday night’s panel discussion.
Here’s a clip with Gilberto Amaya on the Garifuna language.
International Development Bank’s Judith Morrison spoke about how the 100+ names for mixed-race South Americans was a way to distance people from their African roots.
Howard Professor J. Santiago touched on the ways time and your family’s migration history changes your identity.
Chris Rodriguez, author of Latino Manifesto, noted how European colonizers got rich on Latin America’s wealth, all the while perpetrating white supremacist notions.
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